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Dear fellow developers, |
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A new project is about to start so I am requesting your feedback |
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The primary goal of the Proxy Maintainers[1] project is to create and maintain |
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relationships between developers and users in order to ensure packages in the |
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Gentoo tree stay up to date. This involves a few main tasks: |
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List Interested Developers who are interested in being Commiters. |
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Recruit Interested Users for Proxy Maintainers. |
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Commiter/Proxy Maintainer Training. |
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Maintain a list of pairings between Commiters/Proxy Maintainers. |
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Users who are willing to take care of a package will contact the developer who |
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is interesting in the respective category. The developer and the user will |
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work on the ebuild before they commit it to portage tree. |
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I kinda need some feedback wrt the following topics: |
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1) Should we use a new overlay? A new branch on sunrise? or work ebuilds in |
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Gentoo bugzilla?I think the latter is the best |
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2) I think an email alias is not needed We can "monitor" maintainer-wanted/- |
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needed alias if needed. What do you think? |
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3) Maybe a new KEYWORD needs to be added on bugzilla so ppl get informed that |
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the specific bug is already taking by another developer and that somebody is |
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working on it. So marking a bug with a keyword e.g. "PROXY" might be useful. |
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Goals: |
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Well, apparently the main goal is to extend what we already do on Sunrise. |
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Pick up interesting packages without the need to maintain them actively.We |
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will only be a "proxy" between portage and users. I think this is a good way |
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to attract new developers who will get excited seeing their ebuilds going |
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directly to portage tree, plus an excellent way to pick up important packages |
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from the huge maintainer-wanted list which is getting bigger and bigger every |
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day. I know there are active users who have a significant ebuild knowledge and |
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this is a good way to enforce their skills and motivate them. |
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Gentoo has a powerful user base and we should take advantage of it |
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Comments? |
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[1]http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang/proxy/ |
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Markos Chandras (hwoarang) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org |
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